In photographs, she comes across as a screen siren with model good looks, but
Anne Hathaway has insisted that she is blighted with a "good girl"
image and "no sex appeal".

The 30-year-old actress, who is tipped for an Oscar for her performance in Les Misérables, said she is "not cool", with fans approaching her wanting "a hug not a photo" as a result of her reputation.

Hathaway has now complained that she has too often been seen as a "bizarre-world good-girl character", labelled "very vanilla, very sweet, very accessible and not interesting".

"I'm not Rihanna," she told Harper's Bazaar. "I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.

"For a long time it was me and her [her manager] against the world. I was seen as this bizarre-world good-girl cartoon that I in no way identified with – very vanilla, very sweet, very accessible and not interesting.

Now, after her "secret" marriage to Adam Shulman in September, she has told of her worries about turning 30, as well as the effect of her personal life on her performance. "It doesn't help that the new crop of girls is so gorgeous, and so 22 years old," she said of her recent birthday. "But I'm excited about it."

Hathaway also admitted that her romance could have jeopardised her performance in Les Misérables.

She said that she had tried to tell her now-husband that she needed to be "really sad right now" while filming the tragic role of Fantine, but ended up just wanting to "play" with him instead.

"He walks into a room, and I light up. I can't help it," she said.

"A few days into it [filming Les Misérables] I said 'I'm having too much fun, I just want to play with you and I need to be really sad right now.' "

She said: "I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life.".